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Re: LF Yard Tower
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:57:24 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Took a crack at this, converted my yard tower design (as found in the Virtual
> LEGO book) as closely as I could (within reason, I switched to medium slope roof
> bricks since low slopes in a well rounded assortment in any earth tone are rare
> in that selection of sets)... the price is not really feasible but I'm fairly
> happy with how it came out appearancewise.
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> Here's the model inside LDD (you can see how many sets I had to include! 2 each
> plane, house, animal, 1 car, no robot)
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/lar/LDD-LF/mtw_yardtower_ldd_screenshot.jpg
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> and here's the pricing from LF:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/lar/LDD-LF/mtw_yardtower_lf_screenshot.jpg
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> Pretty stiff! That using the same item number for all models HAS to change, or
> this may not work well in the long run. Paying shipping each time just to order
> multiple copies will hurt.
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> This model has been submitted as a sharable model, it will be interesting to see
> if it gets approved and how long it takes... the searchable name is
> MTW_YardTower.
Also notice that you get almost 2000 pieces but you only use about 1/8th of
them. I think LEGO would do good to make more bags of less pieces.
-Orion
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 | | Re: LF Yard Tower
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| (...) This brings up a good point. I've not tried the software yet, but it seems like it ought to work like this... Selecting a piece for a model not only results in the piece being shown in the model, but results in all of the "extra" pieces from (...) (21 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.general)
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| Took a crack at this, converted my yard tower design (as found in the Virtual LEGO book) as closely as I could (within reason, I switched to medium slope roof bricks since low slopes in a well rounded assortment in any earth tone are rare in that (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains)
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